GODDESS in a Sentence

Learn GODDESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

65 example sentences for GODDESS, such as:

1. According to ancient legend, the river is a goddess.
2. But in his heart he knew that it had been the goddess.
3. He hangs on her every word as if she were some sort of goddess.
4. Raquel Welch was at the height of her popularity as a sex goddess.
5. Here dwells the cunning and powerful goddess Calypso, daughter of Atlas.

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goddess
 n.  a female deity
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  But in his heart he knew that it had been the goddess.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
2  Thus spoke Minerva daughter of Jove, and Telemachus lost no time in doing as the goddess told him.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
3  Presently the crew came up, and the goddess spoke encouragingly to each of them.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
4  I wish first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva, who manifested herself visibly to me during yesterday's festivities.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
5  Nestor gave out the gold, and the smith gilded the horns of the heifer that the goddess might have pleasure in their beauty.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
6  Meanwhile the goddess fetched me up four seal skins from the bottom of the sea, all of them just skinned, for she meant playing a trick upon her father.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
7  We are speaking god and goddess to one another, and you ask me why I have come here, and I will tell you truly as you would have me do.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
8  You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take a fancy to a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
9  Now goddess," he answered, "there is something behind all this; you cannot be really meaning to help me home when you bid me do such a dreadful thing as put to sea on a raft.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
10  She had formerly been a mere mortal, but had been since raised to the rank of a marine goddess.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
11  She went straight to the beautifully decorated bedroom in which there slept a girl who was as lovely as a goddess, Nausicaa, daughter to King Alcinous.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
12  This was the place to which the goddess went when she had given instructions to the girl.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
13  Here dwells the cunning and powerful goddess Calypso, daughter of Atlas.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
14  I, however, after I had got into bed with Circe, besought her by her knees, and the goddess listened to what I had got to say.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
15  '"'You dare devil,' replied the goddess, 'you are always wanting to fight somebody or something; you will not let yourself be beaten even by the immortals.'
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
Example Sentence:
1  According to ancient legend, the river is a goddess.
2  Raquel Welch was at the height of her popularity as a sex goddess.
3  He hangs on her every word as if she were some sort of goddess.